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What’s important in the World for 2014?

As 2013 reaches its end and we prepare to welcome its successor, there’s usually a moment of pause to review the past, while sneaking a peek at what lies ahead. Let’s focus on the later and see what are the major global issues for 2014.

It identifies the the top 10 Trends for 2014, discusses the Future Agenda for the year, presents specific regional Challenges and maps the networking & interconnections between all of them.

The top 10 Trends for 2014, ranked by global importance ( a regional rating is also provided) are:

Rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa

Widening income disparities

Persistent structural unemployment

Intensifying cyber threats

Inaction on climate change

The diminishing confidence in economic policies

A lack of values in leadership

The expanding middle class in Asia

The growing importance of megacities

The rapid spread of misinformation online

each trend is clearly presented using – among others – excellent visualizations / infographics. As an example take a look at the depiction of trend number 3 “Persistent structural unemployment”

It’s also quite interesting to go through the future agenda – take a look at the continuously shifting “landscape” ( pun intended) of orbital spacecraft launches. US is gradually becoming a lesser player and China rises in this domain as well.